[EN] This paper deals briefly with the figure of Mark Anthony, the
consul of 44 BC and triumvir, and his reception in modern times. This is one
of the figures more negatively presented through the centuries, in a tradition
that started in his own times in Rome, due to Cicero and the propaganda of
his rival Octavianus. At the same time, this story underlines the power a stereotype
can achieve and the necessity today of its re-evaluation.